[PCA] NEWS: Botanical Research Institute of Texas & U of North TX investigate digitizing herbarium collections

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.ewire.com/display.cfm/Wire_ID/5109

Botanical Research Institute of Texas and University of North Texas 
receive $738,075 National Leadership Grant for to investigate digitization 
of herbarium collections

FORT WORTH, TEXAS, Dec. 3 -/E-Wire/-- For 20 years, researchers have 
studied the dried plant specimens of Fort Worth's Botanical Research 
Institute of Texas (BRIT), which houses more than one million specimens as 
the largest independent herbarium in the southwestern United States. Its 
specimens date back to the 18th century.

The Texas Center for Digital Knowledge (TxCDK) at the University of North 
Texas in Denton is partnering with the BRIT to develop and integrate 
technology that will transform data from the printed or handwritten labels 
of the institute's specimens into a form that is processable by computers. 
BRIT and TxCDK have received a $738,075 National Leadership Grant from the 
Institute of Museum and Library Services, a primary source of federal 
support for the nation's libraries and museums, for the project, 
"High-Throughput Workflow for Computer-Assisted Human Parsing of 
Biological Specimen Label Data."

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